Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

These Spindrift Pages by Theodore Dalrymple

He had a notebook. He decided to use it by taking notes about his reading. A jaunt over mostly non-fiction, but not all. Ranges back in time to Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and G.K. Chesterton, but a lot over time. And all sorts of subjects.

Fancies Versus Fads by G.K. Chesterton

A collection of essays on, as he observes up front, various subject. Not very fanciful, a number of them -- the legal question of how the protection of the community allows for massive injustice is obviously deadly serious. One discussing the reaction to an essay he wrote about youngsters who refer to their fathers as "old bean." Dramatic unities. The lack of danger of toy bow and arrows. And more.

The Glass Walking Stick by G.K. Chesterton

A collection of various essays written over the years. A tendency to touch on themes of things dismisses as legend turning out real, the important of custom, symbolic meanings of things from lions to kings, and more

Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Welter

A collection of essays, ringing changes on the theme of the Cult of True Womanhood, the most influence being the essay on it. Covers such subjects as medical treatment and detective fiction. A bit cherry-picked in sources but the stuff covered did exist.

Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton mostly on the Jazz Age.

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Avowals and Denials - A Book of Essays by G.K. Chesterton

A selection of essays written by Chesterton in 1934.  More or less topical.

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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. Wright

A collection of essays on science fiction and fantasy.

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Collected Essays by Graham Greene

A large number of essays. Most reviews of books and discussion of authors -- a few of whom you probably heard of -- many contemporary to him and others historical. The variegated subjects give him a lot of different topics to hold forth on. Also on a few other topics, like the experience of being bombed.

The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair

A collection of pieces on various colors in human history.  Most on the pigments -- the chemistry of it has vast history.  Of which Prussian blue being discovered because a man making a batch of red lake was given adulterated potash is merely the weirdest.  Brushes on symbolism, gems, flowers, and other things.  Lots of interesting bits, and only a couple bobbles I picked out.

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922 by G.K. Chesterton

All sorts of essays. (Also an appendix with the ones written by Belloc while Chesterton was in America.)

Hits all sorts of topics. Poland. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. How the women of his day were reacting against the Victorian woman without noticing that she had been reacting against earlier women more like them. How America is a separate country. Einstein and abuse of the term "relativity." And more.